Before you start plucking out all the fungi you can find in your yard, it’s helpful to know why mushrooms fruit. It starts with the mycelium, a web of filaments that lives under the soil that “fruits” ...

Mushrooms are healthy, hearty ingredients that can be used for a variety of dishes, but some varieties can be relatively expensive or hard to find in stores. If you're a mushroom lover, you may wonder ...

Q. Each year around late August through September, mushrooms and other fungi emerge through my grass in both front and back yards. The backyard fungi grow in clusters and generally I cut them out of ...

Like many mushroom harvesters, I got interested in foraging for fungi during the COVID-19 pandemic. I had been preparing for a summer of field work studying foraged desert plants in a remote part of ...